City of Westminster Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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2nd January 1787 - 29th December 1787

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Image 106 of 58729th January 1787


Deponent took the Child out with the Kitchen Tongs, and
the Child was quite Dead, Says that he did not obsence any
external appearances of Bruises on the Body of the Child
Deponent does not Know how the Child was conveyed or come
into the PrivyDeponent Says the Privy communicates
with the Common Sewer, and that upon Floods it is almost
full of Water

Tomas Turner< no role >

Joseph Ferdinando Gillio< no role > of Hill Street St. George Hanover
Square Surgeon , on his Oath Says that he this Day [..] Examined the
Body of a New Born Make Infant at Mr Robinsons in
New Bond Street in the said Parish, which he found in a
putrid State, upon opening the Body the Lungs were found
inflated, and the Viscera in general putrid, from
which appearances he connot form any Opinion whether
the Child was Born Alive or not

Severally Sworn the Day
Year and Place above mentioned
before me
Tho. Prickard< no role > Coroner }

J F Gillio




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